Settings and personalisation
Everything here is configuration. Nothing in this area changes a single logged value — not a flight, not a total, not an export figure. Several of these editors look as though they delete things; none of them does.
Read J4 before you spend an evening on any layout. It’s the one idea in this area that costs you something to learn the hard way.
| Guide | What it gets you | |
|---|---|---|
| J1 | Themes and liveries | The app in a look you chose, light and dark |
| J2 | Interface scale (desktop only) | More of the app on a high-DPI laptop |
| J3 | Units and time format | 1:30 or 1.5, and which exports care |
| J4 | Layouts: what follows you and what does not | Which of your layout work reaches your other devices. Read this first |
| J5 | Entry form fields | A flight-entry wizard with only your fields on it |
| J6 | Detail view fields | A flight detail view that opens on what you care about |
| J7 | Custom fields | Fields the app doesn’t model, and the two switches that hide them |
| J8 | Usage stats and crash reporting | A decision about what leaves this device |
| J9 | Image-processing privacy | An answer to “where do my logbook pages go?” |
One thing worth knowing first
There’s no Settings tab. Every setting in this area lives behind your own profile card at the top of the dashboard, on a screen titled Profile Settings — the same route Area A uses for the PIN and your pilot identity (→ A9).
Nothing in this area is Pro-only. Themes, liveries, every layout editor, custom fields, units and both privacy screens are all available on the free tier.
The SECURITY section is documented in Area A, not here. It has two rows and both already have a guide: Set Profile PIN / Change Profile PIN in A5, and FaceID / TouchID in A6.
Every row of Profile Settings, and the guide that covers it
In screen order. The section headings are shown uppercase in the app and are quoted that way throughout. Rows marked conditional appear only in the circumstance noted.
| Section | Row | Covered by |
|---|---|---|
| (the block at the top, no section) | your picture, name, greeting, title, licence number and email | A9 |
| PILOT IDENTITY | Greeting | A9 |
| Date of Birth | A9 | |
| Certifications & Documents | Area G, pointed at by A9 | |
| Previous Experience | Guide B7, pointed at by A9 | |
| Operating Authorities | Guide G7, pointed at by A9 | |
| APPEARANCE | Animation Duration | J1 |
| Theme & Livery | J1 — and the Interface scale card inside that sheet, J2 | |
| LAYOUTS | (the section as a whole — which tiles travel between devices) | J4 |
| Logbook Stats | Guide D2 | |
| Aircraft Card | Area E (the Hangar) | |
| Flight Card | Guide D3 | |
| Detail View | J6 | |
| Entry Form | J5 | |
| Custom Fields | J7 | |
| Logbook Quick Filters | Guide D6 | |
| UNITS AND FORMAT | Distance | J3 |
| Time Format | J3 | |
| ACCOUNT & DATA | Subscription Status | Guides K1, K3 |
| Activate with a license key | Guide K4 | |
| Move Pro to this logbook (conditional: signed in, and this logbook is not Pro) | Guide K5 | |
| Send anonymous usage stats | J8 | |
| the sign-in block — Sign in with Google / Sign in with Apple, Signed in via …, Sign Out, the Your session has expired panel and the Sign-in failed / Try Again state | Guide K7 | |
| Devices | Area I (manage paired devices) | |
| Privacy: Image Processing | J9 | |
| Crash Reporting | J8 | |
| Backups | Area H | |
| Delete Profile | A10 | |
| SECURITY | Set Profile PIN / Change Profile PIN | A5 |
| FaceID / TouchID | A6 | |
| DATA SYNC | Cloud-Less Sync | Area I |
| Sync Settings | Area I | |
| Invite a device (conditional: the sync service is running) | Guide I2, and Guide I3 for the no-camera path | |
| Listening on … (label, same condition) | Area I | |
| HELP & ABOUT | User guide | A11 |
| About Aviator Archive | A11 |
Every section and every row above has a guide. The sign-in block is covered by K7 · Sign in, and what the account is for, in Area K because it’s about your account rather than personalisation. It covers what signing in is for, what Sign Out does, and why that isn’t the dashboard card’s Logout — a mix-up A8 also warns about.
Some rows on this screen aren’t settings at all. Devices and Cloud-Less Sync lead into Area I, and Backups leads into Area H.
Words this area introduces
Livery — a complete look for the app: a colour scheme plus a wallpaper. There are two slots, one for light mode and one for dark, and you fill each from its own list. Liveries are colour archetypes, not airline liveries — Flyover is the red-white-and-blue palette, not any particular carrier.
Layout — a saved choice about which fields appear on one screen, and in what order. Seven screens have one, and each has its own editor.
Custom field — a field you invent, or one an import brought in that the app doesn’t model. It lives beside the built-in fields rather than instead of them.
Glass opacity and Nav opacity — how see-through the frosted panels and the navigation bar are over the livery’s wallpaper.
Interface scale — a desktop-only size multiplier for the whole app, applied on top of whatever scaling the operating system is already doing.